Recent Research by Fellows and Staff

The members of the Institute are engaged in a wide range of research activities. The following list provides a selective bibliography of recent publications as well as brief accounts of work-in-progress.

James P. Carley

“Hannibal Gamon and Two Strays from the Library of King Henry VIII,” The Book Collector 64 (2015): 213–219.

“‘Many good autors’: Two of John Leland’s Manuscripts and the Cambridge Connexion,” in Great Collectors and Their Grand Designs: A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of A.N.L. Munby, a special issue of Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 15.3 (2014): 27–56.

“The Libraries of Archbishops Whitgift and Bancroft,” The Book Collector (Summer 2013): 209–227.

“ 'Accurately and Exquisitely Made': George Abbot’s Preface to the 1612 Catalogue of Lambeth Palace Library,” in From the Reformation to the Permissive Society: A Miscellany in Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Lambeth Palace Library, ed. Melanie Barber and Stephen Taylor with Gabriel Sewell (Woodbridge, 2010), pp. 43–62.

(Ed. and trans., with the assistance of Caroline Brett) John Leland, De uiris illustribus; On Famous Men (Toronto and Oxford, 2010).

“Henry VIII’s Library and the British Museum Duplicate Book Sales: a Newly Discovered De-accession,” in Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections, ed. Giles Mandelbrote and Barry Taylor (London: The British Library, 2009).

King Henry's Prayer Book. A facsimile accompanied by a specially commissioned Commentary volume by James P. Carley (London and New York: Folio Society, 2008).

“Glastonbury, the Grail-bearer and the Sixteenth-century Antiquaries,” in The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur, ed. Norris J. Lacy (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY, 2008), pp. 156–172.

“The Dispersal of the Monastic Libraries and the Salvaging of the Spoils,” in The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Vol 1: To 1640, ed. Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Teresa Webber (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 265–291.

“John of Glastonbury and Borrowings from the Vernacular,” in Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg, ed. Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney (Toronto, 2004), pp. 55–73.

“Leonius of Paris. Histories of the Old Testament: The Book of Ruth. Introduction and Translation,” in Interpretation of Scripture: Practice, ed. Frans van Liere and Franklin T. Harkins, Victorine Texts in Translation 6 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 475–496.

“Medicine and Devotion in the Later Middle Ages,” Filologia Mediolatina 22 (2015): 239–256.

“Aegidius of Paris and his Two Letters to Bishop Odo,” in Medieval Letters – Between Fiction and Document, ed. Christian Høgel and Elisabetta Bartoli, with a preface by Francesco Stella and Lars B. Mortensen, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 33 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 153–166.

“Nummus falsus: The Perception of Counterfeit Money in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Century,” in Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought, ed. Giles E.M. Gasper and Svein H. Gullbekk (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 77–91.

“Biblical Versification and Memory in the Later Middle Ages,” in Culture of Memory in East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, ed. Rafal Wójcik (Poznan, 2008), pp. 53–64.

“Biblical Versifications from Late Antiquity to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century: History or Allegory,” in Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity: The Encounter Between Classical and Christian Strategies of Interpretation, ed. Willemien Otten and Karla Pollmann, Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 87 (Leiden, 2007), pp. 315–342.

“The Story of Ezra: A Versification Added to Peter Riga's Aurora,” in Anglo-Latin and Its Heritage: Essays in Honour of A.G. Rigg on His 64th Birthday, ed. Siân Echard and Gernot R. Wieland, Publications of The Journal of Medieval Latin 4 (Turnhout 2001), pp. 163–188.

“The Origins and Development of Censorship in France,” in The Reformation in the Streets, Schools, and Studies: Essays in Honour of Paul F. Grendler, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto, 2008), pp. 233–235.

“Sources and Problems Facing the Prosopographer of the University of Paris in the Early Modern Era,” History of the Universities 25 (2008), 12–27.

“Noël Béda and the Defense of Tradition,” in Biblical Humanism and Scholasticism in the Age of Erasmus, ed. Erika Rummel (Leiden, 2008), pp. 143–164.

Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500, a critical edition of Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90 (Leiden, 2006).

“The Reactions of Catholic Intellectuals to the Jewish Presence in Spain during the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs,” in Jews and Conversos at the time of the Expulsion, ed. Yom Tov Assis and Yosef Kaplan (Jerusalem, 1999) pp. 53*–64*.

“‘In the Footsteps of the Fathers’: The Date of Bede’s Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings to Nothelm,” in The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R.A. Markus, ed. W. Klingshirn and Mark Vessey (Ann Arbor, 1999), pp. 267–286.

“Did the Dominican Order Legislate Doctrinal Conformity after 1277?” in the German Historical Institute London Bulletin, No. 35 (1214).

“The Dominican Studium Romanae Curiae: The Papacy, The Magisterium and the Friars,” in Philosophy and Theology in the 'Studia' of the Religious Orders and at Papal and Royal Courts: Acts of the XVth Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, University of Notre Dame, 8–10 October 2008, ed. Kent Emery, Jr., William J. Courtenay, and Stephen M. Metzger (Turnhout, 2012), pp. 577–600.

“The Dominican Order and the Development of Reference Tools in the Thirteenth Century: A Contribution Revisited,” in Florilegium mediaevale: Études offertes à Jacqueline Hamesse à l'occasion de son éméritat, ed. José Meirinhos and Olga Weijers (Turnhout, 2009), pp. 393–417.

“The use of philosophy, especially by the Preachers ...”: Albert the Great, the Studium at Cologne, and the Dominican Curriculum (Toronto, 2009).

“Summae inquisitorum and the Art of Disputation: How the Early Dominican Order Trained Its Inquisitors,” in Praedicatores, inquisitores I: The Dominicans and the Medieval Inquisition (Rome, 2004), pp. 103–114.

Review of Elizabeth S. Bolman, ed. The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Ascetiscism in Upper Egypt (New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., 2016): forthcoming.

Review of M. Yasin, Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), for CAA.reviews, May 12, 2011 (online).

Review of N. Hiscock, The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), for Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 53 (2010): 200–202.

Kenneth Schmitz

The Recovery of Wonder: The New Freedom and the Asceticism of Power, McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas 39 (Montreal, 2005).

”Transcendentalism or Transcendentals? A Critical Reflection on the Transcendental Turn,“ Review of Metaphysics 58 (2004–2005): 537–560.

”Was heisst Philosophie? One Hundred Years of German Catholic Thought,“ in One Hundred Years of Philosophy, Brian J. Shanley, Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy 36 (Washington, DC, 2001).

”Jacques Maritain and Karol Wojtyla: Approaches to Modernity,“ in The Bases of Ethics, ed. William Sweet (Milwaukee, 2000)

“Consilia humana, ops divina, superstitio: Seeking Succor and Solace in Times of Plague, with Particular Reference to Gaul in the Early Middle Ages,” in Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541–750, ed. Lester K. Little (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 135–149.

“From Baghdad to Beowulf: Eulogising 'Imperial' Capitals East and West in the Mid-Eighth Century,” Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 105C/4 (2005): 151–195.

“The Costs of the Loss of Copyright,” in Current Legal Issues in the Publishing Industry, ed. Bruce Strauch [special edition of The Acquisitions Librarian] (Binghamton, NY, 1999).

Fred R. Unwalla

“Envoi – What Remains: The Nachleben of the Invisible,” in Editing the Image: Strategies and Discontinuities in the Production and Reception of the Visual, ed. Mark Cheetham, Elizabeth Legge, and Catherine Soussloff (Toronto, 2008), pp. 207–231.

Co-editor (with Julia Flanders and Edward Vanhoutte), Computing the Edition: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Medium; special issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing (2008).

“Being Hidden: A Phenomenology of Allegory” (individual research in progress).

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